§ Statement of Purpose

The View from 1776 presents a framework to understand present-day issues from the viewpoint of the colonists who fought for American independence in 1776 and wrote the Constitution in 1787. Knowing and preserving those understandings, what might be called the unwritten constitution of our nation, is vital to preserving constitutional government. Without them, the bare words of the Constitution are just a Rorschach ink-blot that politicians, educators, and judges can interpret to mean anything they wish.

"We have no government armed with the power capable of contending with human passions, unbridled by morality and true religion. Our constitution is made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other." John Adams, to the Officers of the First Brigade, Third Division, Massachusetts Militia, October 11, 1798.

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Saturday, March 21, 2009

More Power to the Energy Commissariat

The risk that President Barack Obama’s plans to promote “green jobs” could bog down amid local and state opposition to the transmission lines, windmills and other clean energy hardware is becoming an issue for both supporters and critics of the president’s agenda.

A new U.S. Chamber of Commerce Web site launched Friday catalogues 62 wind, wave, solar and biofuel projects and 15 high-voltage transmission proposals across 25 states that have faced significant local opposition, often enough to shut them down entirely. It also documents how 18 natural gas projects, 17 nuclear power plants and around 175 coal plants worth more than $62 billion in investments have encountered local antagonism.

Perhaps President Obama should drop the mask of bipartisan comity and emulate his socialist soul-mate Stalin. When local opposition stood in his way, the Soviet dictator never hesitated to liquidate a few million people.

As the nation already is a long way down the road to serfdom and apparently enjoying its increasing servility, let the President follow in the footsteps of his liberal-progressive-socialist predecessor Franklin Roosevelt, who nationalized farming, labor, and manufacturing. Simply empower the Washington bureaucrats to override any state or local opposition, without regard to the Fifth, Ninth, or Tenth Amendments.

After all, we are taught that only the liberal intelligencia know what is best for the nation.